“I was asked by Skype to put some music to some emojis that they’ve created especially for Valentine’s Day,” he says in a video announcing the emojis. “At first I thought, hmmmm...is this for me? And then I thought yeah, you know, why not? Something fun, something nice and new.

This isn’t McCartney’s first unexpected partnership. In 2014, the musician recorded the theme song for the Xbox and Playstation game Destiny, a first-person shooter set in space.

This time around, however, the end product is far gentler. “I’m quite pleased by the way they’ve turned out,” McCartney says. “I hope people will use them, sending messages of love etc. -- sending all their emotions with emojis with my music attached to them.”

So if you have a special someone in your life this Valentine’s Day, in lieu of cliched flowers why not tell them how you feel via an animated Flirting Banana emoji with music by Paul McCartney?